Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

[RHONDA MCDONNELL <rhonda_mcdonnell AT msn.com>]

Since Absalom, Absalom is my favorite Faulkner novel, I had no real complaints (even if AKM is the one I keep coming back to).  I certainly agree, David, with the dread followed by relief regarding Huck Finn.  Just because Hemingway thought it was the greatest doesn't mean the rest of us have to keep drinking that kool-aid.  I would've liked to have seen A Confederacy of Dunces moved up, by the way. I forgot to mention that last night.

--Rhonda

"You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing."
  
                                    Walker Percy

> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 09:29:04 -0400
> From: dabeck AT iupui.edu
> To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [percy-l] Ten Best Southern Novels of All Time...
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> Hey Rhonda,
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> I have to (respectfully, of course) disagree. I was hoping that they
> weren't going to put Huck Finn as number one. But I completely agree
> with Absalom being number one; in fact, I'd go as far to say that it is
> the great American novel. Your description of AKM fits Absalom as well
> ("the confluence of all American
> > Literature, with all the past flowing in and everything after
> > carrying a piece of it").
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> That's just my two cents. Both novels are great. But I would have
> switched Last Gentleman in place of The Moviegoer. (Yes, I think my
> letter ended up with yours.)
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> I'm interested in hearing what others think.
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> -David
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> Quoting RHONDA MCDONNELL <rhonda_mcdonnell AT msn.com>:
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> > Thanks Karey. Looks like just about all of WP's fiction got mentioned
> > (I didn't see Thanatos or LITR but I was skimming--I guess that's 2/3
> > then). It's hard to argue with #1 and #2 except I'd flip their
> > order. All the King's Men is the confluence of all American
> > Literature, with all the past flowing in and everything after
> > carrying a piece of it. But that's just me getting a little purple
> > about it. It just doesn't get better than that, I say. Unfortunately,
> > my survey must have gotten lost in the mail.
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> > --Rhonda
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> > "You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual, because in
> > spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the
> > faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing."
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> > Walker Percy
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> > From: karey1 AT charter.net
> > To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org
> > Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:18:50 -0400
> > Subject: [percy-l] Ten Best Southern Novels of All Time...
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> > http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2009/aug/27/best-southern-novels-all-time/
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> > Percy is #6 on this list with ?The Moviegoer,?
> > but if you click on the link at the bottom of the list, you?ll find
> > others by him as well, further down.
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